github.com/jhaals/yopass: yopass Prometheus metrics middleware allows remote memory exhaustion through unbounded method labels
What fixes it
- 0.0.0-20260727191436-61e31ead04a4github.com/jhaals/yopass, goGitHub
go get github.com/jhaals/yopass@v0.0.0-20260727191436-61e31ead04a4 - 0.0.0-20260727191436-61e31ead04a4github.com/jhaals/yopass, GoOSV
go get github.com/jhaals/yopass@v0.0.0-20260727191436-61e31ead04a4
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Description
The Prometheus metrics middleware in pkg/server/server.go used r.Method directly as a label value on request counter and duration histogram metrics. Since the mux catch-all route matches any HTTP method, an unauthenticated attacker can send requests with arbitrary method strings (e.g. curl -X "M1" http://host/), each creating new counter and histogram time series in the Prometheus registry. The registry's internal maps never evict entries.
An attacker issuing requests with unique method values causes monotonic memory growth until the process is OOM-killed. Additionally, /metrics scrape latency degrades proportionally, eventually timing out and blinding monitoring.
Remediation: Upgrade to 14.7.0 or later, which clamps the method label to a fixed allowlist (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS, HEAD, CONNECT, TRACE) and maps everything else to other.
Text from GitHub Advisory Database
Affected versions 3
- github.com/jhaals/yopass, go< 0.0.0-20260727191436-61e31ead04a4GitHub
- yopassaffected: < 14.7.0CVE List
- github.com/jhaals/yopass, Gofrom first release, fixed in 0.0.0-20260727191436-61e31ead04a4OSV
References 7
- github.com/jhaals/yopass/commit/61e31ead04a4fc27ce80bed226af41c7c0426ccfFixvia CVE List
- github.com/jhaals/yopass/commit/78d0c14f7085048130199662a2ec8a18ec8d6ebbFixvia CVE List
- github.com/jhaals/yopass/releases/tag/14.7.0Fixvia CVE List
- github.com/jhaals/yopass/security/advisories/GHSA-6r69-c6wg-7g8mAdvisoryvia CVE List
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-6r69-c6wg-7g8mAdvisoryvia GitHub
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-107840Referencevia GitHub
- github.com/jhaals/yopass/pull/3773Referencevia CVE List